III.  DESCRIPTION OF THE SUPPLIES/SERVICES REQUIRED TO MEET THE AGENCY'S NEEDS

Specifically describe the supplies and/or services to be acquired including the estimated value (including options) and quantity of each item, the total estimated value of the acquisition, and the estimated delivery dates/periods of performance.  For example, if commodities are being procured with technical data, support equipment, and support services (staff-hour quantity of support hours) each should be listed, not just commodity quantities.  If all of the ancillary requirements associated with a particular item are not specifically described in the J&A, those ancillary requirements cannot be included in the resulting contract unless a second J&A covering those ancillary requirements is executed. Also, state the type of appropriation (e.g., 3600, 3010, 3400) that will be used to fund each requirement listed.

Here is an example of such a list:

"Under the contemplated contract, ABC Corporation will provide the following supplies and services in sustainment of the XYZ program:

(1) Approximately 30,030 staff-hours will be acquired each year for: (a) depot-level (Level II) maintenance on eight XYZ systems around the world and routine (Level 1) maintenance on the two systems located at ABC Corporation's facility, (b) help desk services (24 hours/day, 7 days/week) to provide daily assistance to military personnel to maintain the systems, and (c) software releases for the XYZ system (including any deficiency releases needed to fix minor problems that occur after a major release) and maintenance training on those software releases.  The period of performance of this effort will be from January 2005 through 30 September 2005, and 3400 appropriations will fund this effort.

(2) Approximately 2,640 staff-hours will be acquired each year to convert seventeen XYZ systems into seventeen QRS systems to enable a transportable weather system to be deployed into forward locations in order to provide polar ingest capability outside the UMQ-13 polar footprint.  Deliveries of these items will occur between January 2005 and March 2006, and 3400 appropriations will fund this effort.

(3)

(N)  "

If approval for more than one fiscal year requirement is needed, give the rationale for this request. Generally, the scope of these actions is limited to current requirements only, so that actions may be taken to facilitate competition for out-year requirements. In some cases, there are no feasible actions that could develop future competition, and it is reasonable to seek approval for more than one fiscal year's requirements.

For ID/IQ or requirements contracts, use the maximum dollar value of the total estimated orders as the estimated J&A dollar value. (See FAR 6.303-2(a)(3); AFFARS MP5306.304).